broke

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  1. verb Past tense of break.
  2. verb Nonstandard A past participle of break.
  3. adjective Informal Bankrupt.
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  • Always dead broke, from handing out his pay to beggars—broke, that is, until he met Marmaduke. —  OM: The Secret of Ahbor Valley
  • But the point was that the swine Underhill had handed her the mitten just because she was broke, and that was what Ronny thought so bally rotten. —  The Project Gutenberg eBook of Jill the Reckless, by P. G. Wodehouse
  • Traffic on the upper river vanished once the Knights of the Sword broke through the Zilvinas boom. —  The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, February 2005
  • As soon as day broke, the King my husband said he would rise and play at tennis until King Charles was risen, when he would go to him immediately and demand justice. —  The Entire Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois
  • The safety rope had snapped back like an elastic band when the clip broke, and disappeared over the edge. —  AnalogSFF,January-February2008
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broke:   breaks ·  break ·  breaking ·  broken
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. A variant of brack, q. v.
  2. Formed from broker, like peddle from peddler, etc.; Middle English broken (broke, brook). is not found in this sense. See broker and brokage.
 

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